GPS Isn’t A Solution To Stupidity — Yet Again

You know how Jay Leno has those “headlines” where he asks Kevin, “What do I like, Kev”, and Kevin always replies “Stupid criminals, Jay”?

Well I read a lot of what is published daily about the world of GPS and I love these stupid criminal type write-ups also.

GLENS FALLS — Jeannie Morgan Smith said she was just trying to get a ride home Monday night when she wound up injured and unable to find her way out of a wooded area in West Glens Falls.
She left The Daily Double bar with a man and woman she didn’t know, seeking a ride from the South Street bar to her South Street home, she said, during a telephone interview with The Post-Star Thursday.
Smith, 39, of Glens Falls, was the woman police located thanks to a GPS receiver in her cellphone, which Warren County dispatchers used to track her to a wooded area off Carey Road.
Smith said she “blacked out” from drinking and remembers being shoved and hitting her head in the woods before being left there. She said she has a cut on the back of her head and scrapes to her buttocks…. full story of this bar room queen of the May here:

This woman is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer. If she was, she wouldn’t have gotten so drunk she didn’t know where she was and who she was with. She wouldn’t have gone off with strangers. She likely didn’t even know she had GPS in her cell phone and would have cared less.

But she may owe her life to the fact that the phone carrier, under police supervision, was able to pinpoint her location.

I get a lot of readers here who are pretty much rabid anti-GPS privacy nuts. That’s their right and privilege. But when incidents like this come along you really have to think about both sides of the privacy issue … or so Dave opines.